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# Blue on Blue: An Insider's Story of Good Cops Catching Bad Cops Hardcover – February 7, 2017

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			        		&#x201C;A lively memoir&#x2026;Mr. Campisi, a Brooklyn kid who had one of the longest careers in the NYPD&#x2019;s history, has seen it all, and he tells his cop stories with verve, intriguing detail and a generous heart.&#x201D; &#x2014;Wall Street Journal&#x201C;A compelling, educational, memorable account of Campisi&#x2019;s rise through the police department ranks until he was ordered to accept an assignment no cop ever wanted: to become part of the Internal Affairs Bureau&#x2026;Campisi found ways to alter the reputation of the bureau while also improving techniques to catch and punish cops who cut corners, stole drugs, or employed excessive force&#x2026;This superb memoir can be read for its sheer entertainment or as a primer on police work&#x2014;or both.&#x201D; &#x2014;Kirkus Reviews (starred review)&quot;The thing about Chief Charles Campisi is that he&apos;s a truth teller. &#xA0;Blue on Blue takes the reader into a shadow world where police officers confront evil and often lose that confrontation. This is a serious look at American police work from a man who has seen it all. You will learn an enormous amount by reading this book.&quot; &#x2014;Bill O&apos;Reilly, Anchor at FOX News Channel&quot;A compelling, fascinating, and often harrowing read. In taut prose, Charles Campisi describes the evolution, formation, and institutionalization of a truly professional Internal Affairs Bureau, which he commanded from the mid-1990s until his recent retirement, and which stands as the most important and beneficial development in the modern history of the NYPD&#x2014;indeed, it is arguably the single greatest achievement in the history of American police work generally. This is a riveting history, wonderful for general readers and essential for all modern police forces to study and absorb.&quot; &#x2014;Caleb Carr, New York Times bestselling author of The Alienist and Surrender, New York&#x201C;The ultimate insider&#x2019;s view on police brutality and corruption&#x2026;There are myriad books by street cops and detectives, but a voice telling what it was like to work internal investigations is rare indeed&#x2026;It&#x2019;s cops and robbers both ways here, with the excitement coming both from street stories and from tales of the intricacies of plotting against bad cops, with tools like wiretaps and sting operations. An unflinching expos&#xE9; and a riveting read.&#x201D; &#x2014;Booklist (Starred Review)&#x201C;Blue on Blue is a refreshing, behind-the-wall-of-silence look at what goes on&#x2014;and why&#x2014;in big city police departments. Campisi stockpiles his story arsenal with riveting history, experience, anecdotal evidence and high emotion, continually reminding us of the beacon he kept in sight throughout his career, which was to stay on the up and up no matter what.&#xA0; It all adds up to the real deal from a solid confidential informant.&#x201D; &#x2014;Theresa Schwegel, Edgar Award winning author of Officer Down&#x201C;A must-read for those who want to know the real story behind police misconduct, written with unvarnished frankness by the man who knows the most about the problem. Told with the same gripping intensity as the best true crime, Blue on Blue takes the reader inside the most highly publicized investigations as they happened.&#x201D; &#x2014;Thomas Reppetto, author of the two-volume American Police: 1845-2012&#x201C;Reading Blue on Blue is like losing yourself in a good detective novel, except for two things.&#xA0; It&#x2019;s fact, not fiction.&#xA0; And the bad guys are cops, being chased by good guys who are cops.&#xA0; No one has more insight into the hard work of ensuring integrity in policing than Charles Campisi, the NYPD&#x2019;s longest serving head of internal affairs.&#xA0; This book should inspire others to follow his example.&#x201D; &#x2014;Jeremy Travis, President of John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Former Director of the National Institute of Justice&#x201C;Blue on Blue&#xA0;is as important as it is timely.&#xA0; This is police work as it happens every day, told by a determined and dedicated cop, Charlie Campisi, who never wavered from his mission: to try to make sure all cops act with 100% integrity.&#xA0; Campisi writes compellingly of his nearly twenty years as the chief of IAB,&#xA0;monitoring his fellow cops in what was often a thankless job. It was a job that often included lonely stakeouts, highly dangerous situations and savvy detective work, worthy of Sherlock Holmes.&#xA0;The NYPD lost the best internal investigator in the country when Campisi left the department.&quot;&#xA0; &#x2014;Ray Kelly, Longest serving Commissioner of the NYPD&#x201C;In the world of policing there is no more secretive activity then Internal Affairs. In Blue on Blue, Chief Charlie Campisi lifts the veil, showing the reader the twisted rationalizations, clever deceptions, and sometimes dangerous calculations of cops who are criminals. As the longest serving chief of the NYPD bureau entrusted with the job of rooting out cops who betray their oath, Campisi proved perfect for the job. Though he always treated the accused as innocent until facts suggested otherwise, when evidence showed wrongdoing, he was both skillful and relentless in bringing the offender to justice. I appointed Chief Campisi for those very reasons, and consider him the best ever Chief of IAB in the best police department in the world.&#x201D; &#x2014;Howard Safir, 39th Commissioner of the NYPD
						    	
					    	
						
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        		About the Author
        	
        	
        		
        		
	        		
						
			        		Charles Campisi was Chief of the NYPD&#x2019;s Internal Affairs Bureau from 1996 to 2014. In his years on the job he developed model strategies for investigating corruption, which have been adopted by law enforcement agencies across the US and abroad. A graduate of the FBI National Academy and Harvard&#x2019;s John F. Kennedy School of Government, he currently works as a Senior VP at the private investigation firm Cyber Diligence. He grew up in Brooklyn, New York.Gordon Dillow has been a reporter, columnist, and war correspondent for more than thirty years. He has written for a number of newspapers, including the Orange County Register, the Los Angeles Times, and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, and is the author of Fire in the Sky and coauthor of Where the Money Is, Uppity, and Blue on Blue. He lives in Scottsdale, Arizona.
						    	
					    	
						
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ tells it like it is
            
*by M***E on February 24, 2017*

Blue on Blue should be essential reading for anyone interested in a career in law enforcement, specifically those who want to achieve supervisory positions.Chief Campisi, tells it like it is, in a clear and factual manner, he pulls no punches. Any large law enforcement agency to ensure transparency and public trust, must have an affective Internal Affairs.In the mid 1990’s the NYPD implemented institutional changes in how it tracked and responded to crime and how it conducted police internal investigations. The “New Internal Affairs Bureau” went from an inactive responsive division to a proactive Bureau that aggressively investigated all complaints while simultaneously conducting proactive integrity testing.These changes were implemented by Commissioner Ray Kelly, who directed that the former voluntary assignment to Internal Affairs, be replaced by a mandatory assignment for Sergeants and Lieutenants. Sergeants and Lieutenants seeking assignment to coveted positions in the Detective Bureau, Organized Crime Control Bureau and Intelligence Division, first had to fulfill a two-year assignment in the Internal Affairs Bureau.I was one of the first groups of Sergeants who were (drafted) into the Internal Bureau, under this new policy. I along with many of my colleagues were not very happy with this new assignment. As we settled into our new assignment we realized that the stigma associated with being in IAB slowly eroded as personnel were transferred into and out of the Bureau to their new assignments. There were many excellent investigators who completed their assignments in IAB and moved on to coveted positons within the NYPD.  I have often heard it said, and I agree, that the assignment to IAB made all of us better supervisors.Chief Campisi provides the reader with some eye-opening cases, all of which are true. The case of the Brooklyn Police Officer who stole money that was planted in a car as part of an integrity test is just one instance of proactive integrity testing. Having watched the video, it is amazing this officer didn’t crash the car as he steered with his leg and counted out the cash! This clearly was someone who needed to be removed from the department.Chief Campisi, in his book and in person, always spoke up for the honest cop, letting everyone know that most police officers were hardworking and honest.The NYPD, and the residents of this city have all benefitted from his assignment to the Internal Affairs Bureau.
  

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Tremendous recap of 30 plus years of police corruption, proof is in the pudding!
            
*by J***F on June 5, 2017*

I found the book to be a great recap of the corruption in the department that I was once a part of.  With just the right amount of inside baseball, and without giving away too many secrets, he names names when appropriate but also shields identities when needed.  Chief Campisi took me for a ride down memory lane (bad memories) that began before I became a member of the department...and ended after I finished my 25 year career.  That said I'm sure there are lots of people that take issue with how some of these high profile cases were handled, but I think "the proof is in the pudding".  There was a time when corruption was somewhat more commonplace in the department and now the NYPD is arguably one of the least corrupt big city departments in the world, that credit needs to go somewhere.  If you actually read the book, (and i find it more than a coincidence that none of the negative reviews are confirmed purchases) you will learn that Campisi gives credit to everyone but himself.  While I agree that most credit for these remarkable achievements needs to be shared by all, including the officers on patrol, however some credit needs to be given to the man actually in charge of the unit policing the police.  Well done!  Highly recommend for all Cops, retired cops and citizens who want to better understand the inner workings and realities of Internal Affairs.
  

### ⭐⭐ Glad I Read It , but...
            
*by A***V on January 9, 2019*

I'm glad I read this book because I needed to hear that the majority of cops are good. I'm hoping that is true. I hate the anti-cop sentiment that exists today which I blame on the dishonest press. Unfortunately, I have known corrupt cops and firemen so I know firsthand that corruption exists. But as a woman, I don't know what life would be like without the police and I greatly appreciate them and believe they need to be paid more.If I had not read the last chapter I would have given this book four stars because I enjoyed reading about the police work that went into changing New York for the better. I visited there in 1996 and haven't been back since because  I hated it so much.What I didn't like about the book is Campisi's view on stop and frisk. He says crime has gone up in New York under De Blasio who is anti stop and frisk. Campisi  writes that most crime committed in New York is by young black and Hispanic males and therefore stop and frisk is vital to keeping the city safe. If that is the case, young white males need to be stopped and frisked in order to stop school shootings and heroine overdoes. You can't diminish the quality of life of law abiding young  males by stopping and frisking them because they look like a criminal. You have to find non racist ways to bring down crime. I also doubt that Internal Affairs is as perfect as Campisi tried to make it out to be. I believe corruption exists at all levels and that will probably always be the case;but obviously New York has improved and the police as a whole deserve a lot of  credit and respect  for that.
  

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